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Toddler Program

Pre-School thru Lower Elementary

  • CHM provides before and after daycare.

  • Full time schedule includes anything from 7:00 Am until 6:00 Pm.

  • Our Preschool program is designed for children ages three through four.  We consider it a fun, educational environment.  Children are encouraged to engage, explore and enjoy.

  • The Kindergarten and Lower Elementary programs offers children the opportunity for group and individualized learning, focusing on math, language, creative writing, science, geography and culture. Our programs don't meet, they exceed the state standards.

 

Because one can never be quite sure how the day’s events will progress, all times are approximate.

 

 

7:00 – 8:00     The children may eat a light breakfast (provided by you) and play

                       with daycare jobs in one of our classrooms 

 

8:00 – 9:00     Weather permitting, children are allowed to play outside in our

                       beautiful backyard playground

 

9:00 – 9:15     Children go inside to wash hands

 

9:15 – 9:30     Snack Time (we provide snack. It is always a fresh fruit and

                       carbohydrate item; raisin bread toast with butter, Nut Butter &Jelly                        with organic almond butter on whole wheat bread, quesadillas)

 

9:30 – 9:45     Circle Time. This includes morning songs, calendar, felt story,

                       weather, Montessori job presentations

 

9:45 – 10:15   Art Time

 

10: 15 - 10:45 Work Time: Children are allowed to work on any jobs in the class-

                       room, as long as the jobs are not beyond their particular skill level

                       (ex: most four year olds would not be working on the multiplication

                       box job). During this work time, the teachers will work individually

                       with the children assigned to her on their math and language jobs.

                       Progress on these jobs is documented daily.

 

   

10:45-11:00     Clean up and prepare for lunch

 

11:00-11:30     Lunch time

 

11:30 – 12:15  Outside play time 

 

12:15 – 12:30  Children go inside and prepare for nap

 

12:30 – 2:30    Nap Time

 

2:30-3:00         Children wake up and may go outside for playtime

 

3:00 – 3:15      Snack Time (once again, we provide snack)

 

3:15-4:00         Outside play time. Various "table jobs" are brought out every day

                        an art job is made availiable to the children daily. We try to

                        provide various outdoor projects for the children so they are busy

                        and are having fun

                       

4:00-4:30         "Second Lunch". May of our children start to get hungry again

                         around this time, so we allow them to finish what is left in their

                         lunches.

 

4:30 – 6:00       Free Play Time

 

 

 

 

**See "Rates & Fees" page for full breakdown of tuition**

  • This is a fun, enriching program designed for children two to three years of age.  

 

  • In this program the children are provided a warm, nurturing environment in which they are encouraged to explore, create and learn. 

 

  • The children are introduced to jobs, ideas and concepts from all areas of the Montessori environment and taught to love and respect their environment.

 

  • Because one can never be quite sure how the day’s events will progress, all times are approximate.

         (Children in this program do not have to be potty trained.)

 

7:00 – 8:00     The children may eat a light breakfast (provided by you) and

                       play with daycare jobs inside one of our classrooms

 

8:00 – 9:00     Weather permitting, children are allowed to play outside in our

                       beautiful backyard playground

 

9:00 – 9:15     Children go inside to wash hands

 

9:15 – 9:45     Circle Time. This includes taking roll, morning greeting songs,

                       calendar (we count days in not one, not two, but three 

                       different languages!), weather, Montessori job presentation,

                       monthly thematic unit: topic of day discussed and 

                       corresponding job shown.    

 

9:45-10:00      Snack Time (we provide snack. It is always a fresh fruit and

                       carbohydrate item. ex: raisin bread toast with butter, Nut Butter                          & Jelly made with organic almond butter on whole wheat bread,                        quesadillas)    

 

10:00-11:20    Work Time: Children are allowed to work on any jobs in the 

                       classroom, as long as the jobs are not beyond their particular

                       skill level. (ex: most four year olds would not be working on the

                       multiplication box job). During this work time, the teachers will

                       work individually with the children assigned to her on their 

                       math and language jobs. Progress on these jobs is

                       documented daily. Kindergarteners work in a group, focusing 

                       on math and language skills.

 

11:20-11:30    Clean up and prepare for lunch

 

11:30-12:45    Lunch time & outside play time

 

                       **Children ages 4 and under nap between the hours of

                          12:30 and 2:30**

 

12:45-1:00      Children go inside, wash hands and prepare for afternoon circle

                       Afternoon Circle: We start afternoon with story time (book on

                       tape, felt story, etc), continue with mental math and finish by

                       showing a Montessori job.

 

1:00-2:30        Afternoon work time: Children once again work on jobs in the

                       classroom, with teachers guiding them and helping them when

                       necessary. Kindergarten and Lower Elementary students work in                        group setting.

 

2:30-3:00        At 2:30 the Montessori educational program ends. Children are

                       dismissed for outside playtime.

 

3:00-3:15        Snack Time (once again, we provide snack)

 

3:15-4:00        Outside play time. Various "table jobs" are brought out every day

                       and an art job is made available to the children daily. We try to

                       provide various outdoor projects for the children so they are

                       busy and are having fun.

 

4:00-4:30        "Second Lunch". Many of our children start to get hugry again

                       around this time, so we allow them to finish what is left in their

                       lunches.

 

4:30-6:00        Free Play Time.

 

 

 

 

*Children entering this program who are not yet potty trained can still be in the Preschool, Prekindergarten or Kindergarten programs; however, they will be charged at the "Toddler Program" rate. To be considered full potty trained, children will have been out of diapers or pull ups for at least two full months.

 

See "Rates & Fees" page for full breakdown of tuition.

 

**Other programs may be available, based on space available**

   

                  

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